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Optional 6–8 minute follow-ups · two worked swaps per dayFoundation English · T4 W39–40 · Optional Practice

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Choose one after the main lesson, and after the held check on Days 195/200. Adult reads rich words. Every pair keeps the day's target while changing the everyday domain; none requires money, personal history, an online account, real audience, public performance or child record upload. Modelled replies are called MODEL. These are worked examples, not fresh assessment items.

Day Worked swap A Worked swap B Look for / teacher move
191 Paper garden visitor: a broad seed-drawing kit has cards, mat and return pocket. Answer: a new visitor needs which card to choose and where to return it; no actual visitor response is known. Toy ferry display: a puppet is the imaginary audience for a paper map card. Answer: explain what the card shows and where it belongs; puppet dialogue is MODEL. Child names audience and purpose, not an invented result.
192 Library bookmark station: choose bookmark, place on a page model, name its symbol, return to BOOKMARK pocket. Answer: return follows use. Paper repair kit: choose a broad strip, place on mat, point to torn edge drawing, put strip back. Answer: giving the steps out of order can lose the demonstration. Child cites an action sequence and repairs one reversed pair.
193 Bus map for a nonvisual listener: “the blue one” becomes “the STOP card with two broad straight lines”. Answer: card identity is available without colour. Toy kitchen: “put it over there” becomes “put the broad round plate card in the middle of the mat”. Answer: object and place are named. Same target through language/access, never a diagnosis-based route.
194 Book-cover guide: first “that goes here”; teacher MODEL asks “Which cover?” Revision: “Place the star-outline cover on the left mat.” Answer: model question is not actual feedback. Paper sports badge: consenting adult actually asks where badges return. Answer: record that exact question then revise “Return the badge to BADGE pocket”; if no adult asked, mark NO ACTUAL FEEDBACK. First words, audience type and actual/modelled response remain separate.
195 After check only, puppet dress-up: tell a fictional visitor how to choose/return a wide paper hat card. Answer: name the HAT pocket and order; response MODEL. After check only, book-corner labels: consenting adult follows two placement steps. Answer: record actual action only if observed and repair a missing place word. Do not practise the held bus-route labels/order before the first check.
196 Paper cafe sign vs tiny tale: “Return cups here” helps action; “Jo lost a cup, then found it” tells imagined events. Answer: different purposes. Garden postcard vs task card: a postcard story describes a fictional visit; a task card tells how to file it. Answer: cite an event word versus a direction word. Rich texts may be adult-read; sorting purpose is not independent decoding.
197 Mat strip: if m-a-t and article are taught, read “a mat” with print visible and no picture; answer: child constructs/chooses a broad mat after blending. Cap strip: if c-a-p and article are taught, read “a cap” without picture; answer: child identifies the printed word, then checks a broad paper object. Record exact taught links, prompt and self-correction; if not taught, adult-read meaning only.
198 Toy train tale: a sign fell off, a character searched, found it under a paper seat, replaced it. Answer: beginning/problem/action/ending; a new seat detail is adaptation. Paper garden tale: a label hid behind a broad pot drawing, a character found it and made it visible. Answer: keep retell facts distinct from a changed helper character. Child retells source before inventing a version; one source clue for correction.
199 Art caption record: child chose the words, adult wrote them. Answer: sample shows child's idea, not handwriting. Oral instruction record: child gave three steps to an adult; adult prompted a pocket name. Answer: record prompt and choose “name the return place” as next move. A missing second sample is NOT AVAILABLE; never invent earlier growth.
200 After check only, pretend weather sign and story: sign tells where broad cloud cards go; story says a paper cloud flew behind a flap. Answer: sign directs, story retells imagined events. After check only, kit handover: choose one actual current sample, say what it shows and an attainable next try. Answer: specific evidence, no whole-year certificate. Keep new practice distinct from held post-desk source.

Family option: Five minutes is enough to ask “What would a new visitor need to know?” or “Is this a story or a sign?” with broad paper cards. An adult can read rich print; the child may point, sign, AAC-select, draw or speak. Family may decline. No device, purchase, photo, upload or personal disclosure is required. Original SubjectNest practice © 2026 NeuroForgeIO Pty Ltd, CC BY 4.0.